Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations

• Introductions
• Representing the ‘Real’
• Living Performance
• Part One: The Monstrous Feminine: Lesbian Aesthetics in Process
• Another Con-Text
• Vanishing in Your Face: Embodiment and Representation in Lesbian Dance Performance
• Shall We Dance? Identification Through Linguistic Tropes and Performance
• Part Two: The Lesbian Body in Performance
• Performing the Lesbian Body--The New Wave
• Get Your Feminism Off My Floppy: Seedy ROMs and Technical Tales
• Fleshing It Out
• Part Three: From Margin to Center: Subversion or Assimilation?
• Drama Queens: Ruling with a Rod of Irony
• From Stage to Screen and Back: Tash Fairbanks’ Nocturne (ital) Shedding Some Light on Lesbian Representation and the Performance of Lesbian Desire
• The Laugh That Dare Not Speak Its Name
• Fo(u)r Women: The Art of Collaboration
• It’s Queer Up North: Production Values: Sarah-Jane Interviews Tanja Farman
• Part Four: Writing the Self in Performance: Femmes and Butches, Drag Queens and Kings, Vampires and Clowns
• Performing Butch/Femme Theory
• Coming Out at Night--Performing as the Lesbian Vampire Rosie Lugosi
• Presentation of Self as Performance: The Birth of Queenie aka Valerie Mason-John
• Angela de Castro: Clown in a Cold Country
• Feminine and Masculine Personnas in Performance: Sade Huron: A Drag Queen with a Dick
• Drag Kings and Subjects
• Index

About the Author

Rapi, Nina; Chowdhry, Maya